Result Day

Monday 19 June
READ: Heb. 9:27
MORE LESSON: Eccl. 12:13-14

When I was in elementary school, we had a day called 'the result day.' It was the day the report cards for the term were given to the pupils to take home to their parents. The result days were bad days for me. My mother might not know when we wrote exams at school but she sure did know the day the results were given. That day I would refuse to go home until she came looking for me. I really failed examinations then, so when the result day came, I would collect the result but couldn't go home to show it. It was so bad that I had to be promoted on trial only because I had become the biggest boy in my class. However, things changed for me academically when I met Christ.
Life is like writing examinations everyday and one day your result will be known. Even teachers that give examinations in school have to know that they are also writing exams. Pastors, parents, bankers, business people, whatever you do, you are writing exams daily and your results will be out one day. If you don't want to be sad and ashamed to take your results home, you have to do something today.
Heb 9:27 says, ...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. That is the result day! God has fixed a day of reckoning when you will give account of your life. This is why you have to start from today to practise the wisdom that will make your result to be presentable on that day. All it takes to get your result presentable is to get your exams right. Getting this particular examination is the easiest thing because you are not even required to answer the questions, you are just to copy the answers right. Jesus has already answered the questions, all He requires of you is to copy the answers from His sheet into yours and you pass. Don't be like I was when a teacher told me that even if he gave me the answer sheet to copy, I would still fail. This examination is so critical and the questions have been answered, just take the answer sheet and copy.
The answer is salvation through the Blood of Jesus and you copy by being born again. You can't afford to fail God's exam. Can you imagine a man going to hell just because he is too proud to accept forgiveness of sin by saying, 'Lord I am sorry, I am a sinner' There is always a punishment for failing exams. Hell is the punishment for failing life’s exams.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, help me to live in such a way that I shall not be ashamed to stand before You, in the name of Jesus.
* When the Judge shall decide my case, I will not be a failure, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
In the journey of life in 2017, I shall not be stranded, in the name of Jesus.

Open my Eyes

Sunday 18 June
READ: Gen. 21:14- 19 MORE LESSON: Psa. 119: 18

Haggar was in crisis in the wilderness with her son. The water skin had gone dry and it looked like they both would soon die of thirst in the scorching heat of the desert. She began to weep. This is what most people would do in such a situation when it looks like there is no hope. Where would she get water in the desert for herself and her son? It looked like death was imminent. Many times when a problem is overwhelming and there seems to be nothing that can be done, all that people do is to weep. Crying about a problem doesn't solve it but praying does. Gen 21: 17 says that God heard the voice of the lad. It wasn't Haggar's wailing and weeping that got God's attention; it was the voice of the lad.
The solution came when God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water (Gen 21:19). This means that the problem was not even lack of water, the problem was because her eyes were closed. The Bible seems to imply that the water had been there all the while but she couldn't see it. She started crying and the tears blinded her the more so that she didn't know that the water she was weeping for was around her. She and her son would have died of thirst if not for God that sent His angel to call her attention to the well of water that was close by. The water was in a visible area but for as long as she could not see the water, she couldn't drink it. When she found the water, it was so much that it was enough to fill her bottle with much more remaining.
There is something that you are looking for and might be crying for but you are not getting. Yet, that thing is just around you where you are; all you need is for God to open your eyes. There are opportunities, hidden treasures and solutions around you, you just need your eyes to be opened. Your problem is not the problem; the problem is that your eyes are closed. When God opens your eyes to the right idea, you will arise and shine. Today God will open your eyes to the information you need to take you to the next level. You need the correct information and you also need the current information. When the eyes of your inner man are opened, you will get both the correct and current information and you will be moved from your present state to the next level. Ask God to open your eyes now to the answer you have been waiting for.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, open my eyes to the solution to every problem I am facing, in Jesus’ name.
* I receive spiritual sight to see what others are not seeing, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Whatever puts off people's candle light shall not prevail over mine, I shall glow and shine more and more, in the name of Jesus.

The Captain of the Lord's Host

Saturday 17 June
READ: Josh. 5: 13 - 15
MORE LESSON: Judg. 4: 14 - 24

Joshua was a man of extra-ordinary exploits in war. He was the one that led the Israelites in all the battles in the wilderness and brought them successfully into the Promised Land. In one battle he commanded the sun to stand still so that he could finish claiming his victory over his enemies (Josh. 10: 12). It was this same Joshua that led the people against Jericho and the walls of Jericho fell (Josh. 6: 24 – 27). The Lord promised Joshua that no one would be able to stand before him all the days of his life and that he would possess the land wherein he stepped (Josh. 1: 3). Joshua didn’t lose battles; even when Achan sinned and made Israel to be temporarily defeated at Ai; after Joshua prayed, the Lord revealed the problem to him and returned the victory to Israel.
The battle exploits of Joshua can be traced to an encounter he had with the Lord of Hosts. In Josh. 5: 13 – 15, a man with a sword drawn appeared to Joshua and revealed himself as the Captain of the Lord's Host. This one man was greater than the whole army of the enemies. Joshua won the battles of life because the angels of the Lord, led by the Captain of the Lord's Host Himself fought for him. The Lord is not just a warrior; He is the Captain of warriors. When He draws His sword, it is not for play; it is for war against your adversaries. When the Captain of the Lord's Host fights on your behalf, your victory is sure.
Barak in Judg. 4:8 also understood this. Deborah had asked Barak to go out in battle against Sisera; the captain of the host of Jabin, king of Canaan, who oppressed Israel. Sisera was a captain of a host and in order to deal with him, Barak knew that he needed a higher captain of host. Barak knew that even though he was no match for Sisera, if Deborah went with him to the battle, the angels of God and the Captain of the Lord's Host that worked with Deborah by the reason of her spiritual office over Israel would follow her to the battle with him. So Deborah went with General Barak to war against Sisera and the Hosts of Heaven followed them into the battle and finished off the enemies. God is not limited by gender, the Lord gave victory through a woman that day. Any woman or man can be a general in the Lord's battles, all she/he needs is that the Lord of Hosts should work with them.
Today, invite the Captain of the Lord's Host into the battles of your life. Hand over your battles to the Lord of Hosts and watch your enemies discomfited.

Prayer/Action
* I hand over every battle I am facing to You Lord, fight for me, in Jesus’ name.
*Father, gird me with strength to face every challenge to victory, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
He that lit my candle will defend it from all evil winds unto the perfect day, in the mighty name of Jesus.

The best Life Insurance Package

Friday 16 June
READ: Phil 1: 21 - 23
MORE LESSON: Matt 16: 26

One day my assistant and I were on a journey on a rainy day. All of a sudden, a car overtook us at an incredibly high speed and I wondered where the man was going that he was speeding like that. A little distance ahead we saw the car had crashed fatally. I wondered whether the man felt that he had enough insurance that was why he was moving at such speed even in rain. It is possible that he had insured his car and had life insurance to support his family after he is gone. However, did he insure his eternity?
The Church rightly preaches that the trumpet will sound and the rapture will soon happen. However, an additional fact is that anyone that dies, it is like his own trumpet has sounded. The day of reckoning has come for such a person. I have been to the mortuary and seen dead bodies of all ages. What amazes me is that they always have new bodies to bring in every day. I also noticed that all the corpses are kept together, male and female, no beautiful or ugly corpse. When life is gone, all are dumped together. Even young people that are freaks in appearance, when they die and their corpses enter into that place, they are stripped and they can’t complain. Youthfulness should not be taken for granted, there are young people in the mortuary. No one should live anyhow; for people of all ages die.
The only insurance against death is to be born again. All other forms of life insurance are useless to the dead person. Will a dead man go and collect money from his insurance premiums after he is dead? It is only good for the people he leaves behind. As for the dead person, the only thing that counts is whether he was born again or not; if he would make Heaven or not. If he makes Heaven, then he didn't die, he only transited from earth to Heaven. That is the only life insurance package that is of use to the person.
A genuine child of God is the only one insured against death. Death is not the end of a man if he is born again; it is just a passage into eternity. People may cry on earth but he stands to gain because he is insured. Our text reads, For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain… For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Phil. 1:21-23. Giving your life to Christ is the only and the best insurance for your life. For everyone who is in Christ Jesus, death is gain because his/her name is written in the book of life. Let me ask you, “Is your name written in the book of life or in an insurance broker’s book or even in a guinness book of life?” You need to write your name in the book of life today.

Prayer/Action
* I hand over my life to Jesus for the rest of my life, in the name of Jesus.
* Lord, help me to live the life that I profess in Christ in order to be ready for Your coming, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
I shall never lose my relevance, I shall be remembered in great places; even my enemy will need me and seek for me and remember me for help, in the name of Jesus.